Despite selling 300,000 books, Mary Ryan had to self-publish the English version of her latest novel, writes Colette Sheridan

Almost €345,000 worth of fish and €55,000 worth of fishing gear was confiscated from a factory ship that was found to have equipment capable of dumping fish overboard.

The captain of a factory ship accused of having equipment on board capable of dumping fish overboard was found guilty of the offence by a jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court where penalty was adjourned until July 27.